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re: Why are there both FIND and FINDSTR programs, with unrelated feature sets?
@Ben Coates: Your statement is true, but Cesar meant to say POSIX, not Unix.
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re: Security vulnerability reports as a way to establish your l33t kr3|)z
Re Joshua, a security vulnerability?!?! Where's the payload going in a one-byte NULL byte file?!?!
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re: Why are there both FIND and FINDSTR programs, with unrelated feature sets?
@Cesar: What I do is put a utilities directory with the ported UNIX tools first in the PATH. And yeah, find is the worst offender.
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re: Why are there both FIND and FINDSTR programs, with unrelated feature sets?
So if the colleague was writing a grep replacement, why did he use such different commandline parameters from what grep was using??
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Both FIND and FINDSTR have fallen by the wayside for me in favor of PowerShell's Select-String, mostly because PowerShell has advanced wildcard matching for files built-in ("c:\here\*\*.log") which...
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@JM: "I've always hated "find", though. It can do anything, but I can never remember the syntax."POSIX 'find' is an abomination upon computing. :-)In my spare time I'm very slowly trying to build up a...
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I can't see xpclient's profile by the link, and I found his old posts got removed. Has the banhammer fallen on him?
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@Mason Wheeler: I still do too, because it's fun. I know quite a few programmers who leave work behind when they go home, and come back in the morning to pick it up again though. Maybe Raymond meant...
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Ah, yes, findstr and its plethora of problems and fun :D. One of the top answerers for batch files on Stack Overflow took the time of piecing together all sorts of undocumented things, limitations and...
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re: Security vulnerability reports as a way to establish your l33t kr3|)z
Does anybody remember a bug in older versions of NT (IIRC, XP used to be affected, too) where code that prints \t\b\b\b\b in a loop (in console) would cause the system to reboot after a few...
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re: Why are there both FIND and FINDSTR programs, with unrelated feature sets?
@keithmo: you're right, findstr is in NT 3.1 already (I've got it installed in VMWare)
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@cheong00 "I can't see xpclient's profile by the link, and I found his old posts got removed. Has the banhammer fallen on him?"Clearly so. His account was live when this post happened, and does not...
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Nobody's going to ban someone for down-voting blog entries; that's just stupid. He must have deleted his account out of embarrassment or something. Too bad; I miss him already.
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My guess is he renamed his account. 10 minutes after today's post, Raymond's blog has a 1 star rating.
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re: Various ways of performing an operation asynchronously after a delay
Why do these APIs have threadpool in their name, why not just timerpool? Smells like a leaky abstraction.Thanks for posting samples for both the new and old API, I know some of us tend to nag about...
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@Matt: "What an interesting correlation his account vanishing within hours of this post appearing"Ahh, but correlation does not imply causation.
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@WndSks: The threads can be used for things other than timers.
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The lowercase p in Threadpool really bothers me for some reason. Seems like most other frameworks, including .NET, camel-case it.
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re: Why are there both FIND and FINDSTR programs, with unrelated feature sets?
@Brian_EE: Hence why I studiously avoided making conclusions, or assuming causality.
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I never claimed everything MS do is wrong. I just want a backward compatible design of the UI and features of the Windows OS so the user doesn't have to make feature compromises. It was a coincidence...
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